Minimum payout every single month? How come?

I have seen many discussions where people who reply say that every month they achieve the minimum payout.How can they do this? Are you one of them? Can you supply some advice, idea or your thoughts on this?Do you think its more important to create discussions and comment on every reply, or reply to other people's discussions?
I have 419 posts at the moment, and i am way lower than 10 dollars payment...at about 7USD.
How come they/you manage to be paid every month?

I've been here for over a yr now and other than one month back in the summer and my first month here I've made it to minimum every time....My best advice and this isnt always an option for everyone especially if you work or go to school etc (which I dont do either) is to post as much as possible every day and post quality responses...Other than that i really dont know what to tell you....but good luck

I think this depend on the purpose you stay here. If you only want earn money you can just create the discussions whole days, and if you do like that ,you may achieve the minimum payout every month.
I know someone stay here everyday, and does it like his job. He earns money from here to support his life. But I don't agree with that.
Just image that, you stay here whole day, created 100 discussions, and you may earn up to 5 dollars. And you do this whole month, you may earn up to 150 dollars. But do you think that's worth doing?
May be you can use the time to do another things, and earn more.

I strongly agree with you makatas. I would like to achieve that too. I am trying to create good discussions and always rate the good answers in my discussions and the maximum I made in a day was about 25 cents. Not really sure how to do better since that day I spent so much time on myLot and won 25 cents but can't do it everyday.